C. W. Dugmore

Clifford William Dugmore (9 May 1909 – 25 October 1990) was a British ecclesiastical historian who contributed to the development of the study of church history in Britain.[1]

Early life and ecclesiastical career

He was the son of a parson and educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and Exeter College, Oxford, where he studied the Hebrew language.[1] Dugmore was ordained in 1935 and was appointed vicar of Ward End, rural dean of East Birmingham and installed as honorary canon in St Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham.[1][2] In 1937 Dugmore was assistant curate of Holy Trinity, Formby, in the diocese of Liverpool and sub-warden of St Deiniol's Library, Hawarden.[3] The following year Lord Shrewsbury made Dugmore his private chaplain and gave him the rectory of Ingestre-with-Tixall in the diocese of Lichfield.[4] In 1943 Dugmore was appointed chaplain of Alleyn's College of God's Gift in Dulwich.[5] In January 1945 he was made rector of Bredfield-with-Boulge in Suffolk,[6] and in October he was appointed director of religious education for the diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich.[7]

Academic career

In 1946 Dugmore was appointed senior lecturer in ecclesiastical history at Manchester University and in 1958 he was made chair of ecclesiastical history at King's College London.[1][8]

He founded The Journal of Ecclesiastical History in 1950 and was its editor until 1979.[9] He also co-founded the Ecclesiastical History Society.[1]

Personal life

Dugmore had a daughter with his first wife, Ruth, who died in 1977. He subsequently remarried.[1]

Works

  • Eucharistic Doctrine in England from Hooker to Waterland: Being the Norrisian Prize Essay in the University of Cambridge for the Year 1940 (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1942).
  • The Influence of the Synagogue upon the Divine Office (London: Oxford University Press, 1944).
  • The Interpretation of the Bible: Edward Alleyn Lectures 1943, edited by C. W. Dugmore (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1946).
  • The Mass and the English Reformers (London: Macmillan, 1958).
  • Ecclesiastical History No Soft Option: An Inaugural Lecture delivered at King's College, London on 5 February 1959 (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1959).

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f 'Prof Clifford Dugmore', The Times (29 October 1990), p. 14.
  2. ^ 'Ecclesiastical News', The Times (15 July 1935), p. 10.
  3. ^ 'Ecclesiastical News', The Times (5 July 1937), p. 21.
  4. ^ 'Ecclesiastical News', The Times (31 March 1938), p. 19.
  5. ^ 'Ecclesiastical News', The Times (27 January 1943), p. 7.
  6. ^ 'Ecclesiastical News', The Times (25 January 1945), p. 7.
  7. ^ 'Ecclesiastical News', The Times (4 October 1945), p. 6.
  8. ^ 'DUGMORE, Rev Clifford William (1909-1990)', kingscollections.org. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
  9. ^ Patrick Collinson, 'Clifford Dugmore 1910–1990', The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 42, No. 1 (April 1991), p. 175.
Preceded by President of the Ecclesiastical History Society
1963–1964 		Succeeded by